Practical writing on ERP readiness, implementation, support, training, governance, testing, data migration, recovery, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
RISE bundles licensing, infrastructure and migration services into one contract. Adoption is climbing fast — but it isn't automatically the right answer for every organization.
The deadline is global, but the resourcing pressure has a distinctly local shape for Canadian companies competing with the US and Europe for the same scarce migration talent.
A flawless technical cutover doesn't matter much if the people who have to use the new system every day were never brought along. The survey data says this is where migrations quietly fail.
Years of ABAP customizations built up on ECC don't disappear during a migration — they surface, all at once, usually costing more to fix than anyone assessed up front.
The American SAP Users Group talks to the people actually running these programs. Its most recent member research is a useful reality check against vendor talking points.
It rarely makes the executive summary, but data quality work is where a surprising share of migration budgets and timelines actually go off the rails.
SAP's extended maintenance offer is a genuine safety net for organizations mid-migration — and a trap for organizations that mistake it for a long-term alternative to moving at all.
An unsupported ERP system doesn't fail on day one. It degrades quietly, in ways that show up first in an audit finding or a missed tax update — and Canadian finance and compliance teams are already flagging it.
Every SAP customer left to migrate is competing for the same shrinking pool of experienced S/4HANA consultants. The rate increases already showing up in the market are a preview, not the peak.